Team Bath Netball co-captains Serena Guthrie and Eboni Usoro-Brown won a third successive bronze medal with England as the 2019 Netball World Cup came to an emotional conclusion in Liverpool. After a heartbreaking 47-45 defeat to eventual champions New Zealand denied them a first-ever World Cup Final place, the Vitality Roses dug deep to finish the home tournament on a rousing note by beating South Africa 58-42 in Sunday’s bronze-medal match. Guthrie, who was an...
The last term of the 2018-19 school year has been a fun and inspirational one for hundreds of pupils from across the country who have paid a visit to the University of Bath Sports Training Village. Around 1,500 youngsters aged between five and 18 have visited in the past six weeks alone, taking the number hosted by the Team Bath Tribe & Development team over the past ten months to more than 3,000. Youngsters get...
England clinched their place in the 2019 Netball World Cup semi-finals with a game to spare after beating Trinidad & Tobago 72-46 in Liverpool on Wednesday afternoon. Team Bath Netball’s Serena Guthrie and Eboni Usoro-Brown started once again as the Roses recorded a fifth win from as many games in the tournament, guaranteeing a top-two finish in Group G and a semi-final on Saturday against either defending champions Australia or New Zealand. They – along...
The University of Bath Sports Training Village is hosting a different kind of competition this week – the 60th International Mathematical Olympiad. The brightest young minds from more than 100 countries spanning all five continents are staying on campus and taking on challenging exams in the STV sports hall as the UK hosts the World Championship Mathematics Competition for high school students for the first time since 2002. Someone who aspired to compete at a...
University of Bath-based Dimitri Coutya and Piers Gilliver added four more medals to their combined IWASF Wheelchair Fencing World Cup tally when they competed at the latest international event in Warsaw, Poland. Reigning World Champion Coutya secured another gold in the Category B foil, beating China’s Daoliang Hu 15-10 in the final, and was only denied the epee title after a narrow 15-14 defeat to Iraq’s Ammar Ali. Gilliver had won at least one gold...
England Netball begin the second preliminary stage of the 2019 Netball World Cup on Monday having topped Group D with three wins from three. Team Bath Netball’s Eboni Usoro-Brown started every game and Serena Guthrie – captain of the Roses – led England out in the first and third matches as the hosts beat Uganda 64-32, Scotland 70-34 and Samoa 90-24 in Liverpool. The standard ramps up now, though, as they head into Group G...
University of Bath-based Cameron Chalmers and Tom Gale won three silver medals between them when they represented Great Britain at the 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships in Gavle, Sweden. Sports Performance graduate Chalmers, coached by James Hillier, ran a season’s best time of 45.92 as he was narrowly pipped to 400m gold by fast-finishing Fabrisio Saidy of France in Saturday’s final. Chalmers returned to the track the following evening and, despite not quite being able...
University of Bath sporting scholar Tim Nurse is one of three Team Bath Buccaneers Hockey Club players selected to represent England Hockey at the European U21 Championships taking place in Valencia, Spain, from July 13-21. MJ Church Ambassador Nurse, who studies Sports Performance and is supported by a King Sporting Scholarship, and Stuart Rushmere are both in an 18-strong men’s squad. They helped Great Britain U21s to victory at the Sultan of Johor Cup in...
Kerenza Bryson won a hat-trick of medals and there were podium places for University of Bath students Georgia Hannam, Olivia Green and Myles Pillage as Pentathlon GB athletes continued their excellent 2019 form at the Junior World Championships in Drzonkow, Poland. Bryson teamed up with Physical Health & Activity student Georgia Hannam, a Santander Sporting Scholar, to win silver in the women’s relay on the opening day of competition. Then she built on a stunning...
Nine of Britain’s best racing drivers got to experience and learn from new sports, including modern pentathlon and judo, when they visited the University of Bath for a bonding day. Kiern Jewiss, Seb Morris, Enaam Ahmed, Tom Gamble, Jordan Albert, Bradley Burns, Jordan Collard, Ayrton Simmons and Will Tregurtha are all members of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) and have enjoyed success in either single-seater or sports car competition. They took time out from...
